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Green Tea: The oldest tea
Among the six major types of tea, green tea is defined as unleavened tea, because dry tea, tea soup, and leaf bottom are mainly green, so it is called green tea. Green tea has a long history, with a history of more than 3,000 years, and the tea drunk by the Tang and Song people belongs to the category of green tea.
Green tea - condensed thousands of spring colors
Green tea: the largest yield, the most widely distributed
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, China's annual tea output in 2019 was 2.777 million tons, of which black tea output was 258,300 tons and green tea production was 1.8499 million tons.
Green tea not only has the largest output, but also the most widely distributed, north to Shandong, Shaanxi, south to Hainan, Taiwan have green tea output, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu is the main base of green tea in China.
Green tea: stir-fried green, sun-dried green, roasted green, steamed green
The so-called "fried green", "sun-dried green", "baked green", "steamed green", are all processes used in the production of green tea. The basic process of green tea is divided into three steps: killing green, kneading and drying, of which green killing can be divided into heating and steam killing, and steam green tea made of green tea is steamed green tea.
Steaming green technology since ancient times, after the Ming Dynasty gradually rare, Enshi Yulu is one of the few steamed green tea in China, which is characterized by "three greens", that is, dry tea color emerald green, soup color turquoise, leaf bottom bright green.
Enshi Gyokuro - Steamed Green
Stir-fried green tea is a green tea made by stir-frying drying during the drying process of tea. Fried green tea color is green, fragrant and lush, because of its different tea shapes, and divided into long fried green, round fried green, flat fried green, round fried green is a kind of tea that Mr. Lu Xun often drinks, its particles are slightly round, like grains of green beads.
Roasted green tea is a green tea that is dried in a baking cage. Roasted green tea has a slightly lighter aroma and dark green color, and is often used as a tea embryo for making flower tea, such as jasmine tea and rose tea.
Baked green tea also has excellent quality, such as Huangshan Maofeng, Taiping Monkey Kui, Liu An Gua tablets are all baked green tea.
【Sunshine Green Tea】
Sun-dried green tea is a green tea that is dried with sunlight. Sun-green tea mostly uses large-leaf species of fresh leaves, the appearance is thicker than other green teas, the color is dark green, is the raw material for making Pu'er raw tea and Tuo tea.
Green Tea: There are many famous teas
Green tea is the most widely distributed, and the major tea areas are representative of the famous green tea: Jiangnan Tea District has West Lake Longjing, Dongting Biluochun, Lushan Yunwu, Liu'an Gua Tablets, Taiping Monkey Kui, Anji White Tea, etc.;
Jiangbei tea area has Xinyang Maojian, Taibaiyinhao, Rizhao Xueqing and so on;
The southwest tea area has bamboo leaf green, Duyun Maojian, Nannuo Pekoe, Yunlong tea, etc.;
South China tea area has Baisha green tea, Tianshan green tea, Lechang baimao tea and so on;
Small leaf species tea tree
Green tea: Drinking green tea every day has many benefits
The health care effects of green tea have been well known in ancient times.
Tea Saint Lu Yu wrote in the "Tea Classic": "If you are hot and thirsty, congested, brainache, astringent, upset with your limbs, and uncomfortable, chat about four or five sips, and compete with Daigo and manna." ”
Therefore, in the eyes of Chinese medicine, tea is a kind of medicinal material, according to statistics: the eight prescriptions containing tea containing 1018 prescriptions, such as "Preparation for Emergency Thousand Golden Prescriptions", "Thousand Golden Wings Formula", "Outer Terrace Secret Essentials", "Taiping Shenghui Fang", "Taiping Huimin and Pharmacy Bureau Fang", "General Records of Saint Ji", "Pu Ji Fang", and "Medical Sect Jinjian".
In general, Chinese medicine believes that tea has the effect of "quenching thirst, eliminating food, expectorant, relieving fever, clearing the head, and facilitating urination".
Modern research shows that green tea contains a variety of substances that are beneficial to the human body, such as caffeine, catechins, amino acids, fluoride, etc.
Research by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCIH) has found that caffeine stimulates the nervous system, creating excitement that keeps the mind awake and less exhausting.
Because green tea is not fermented and processed, green tea is rich in catechins.
Catechin, a natural antioxidant with higher antioxidant activity than vitamin E, can scavenge free radicals produced by the body and achieve the role of protecting cells. In addition, some studies have shown that catechins have the effect of calming blood pressure, blood sugar, lowering blood cholesterol and LDL.
Fluoride, which refers to fluoride-containing organic or inorganic compounds, is considered by the American Dental Association to add trace amounts of fluoride to water to help reduce tooth decay and help strengthen ungenerated deciduous teeth and enamel of teeth that have grown.
A reminder: green tea is good, do not overe drink, drink tea in moderation, and enjoy health lightly
Green tea: Store to get the law
The advantages of green tea are important in the fragrance and taste, so green tea storage is very important.
Green tea storage environment should be in a dry, cool, sealed place, do not be directly sunburned, do not damp and moldy, and do not run the taste of skewers.
Although the green tea on the market does not have a clear quality period, in order to ensure the taste of the taste, it can be stored for 12 months.
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